How to catch SIGINT for the current in Dart?

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How can Ctrl+C or SIGINT be caught in a Dart program for the current process?

Something similar to this for Node:

process.on('SIGINT', function() {
    // do stuff
});
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A Nortonsmith On BEST ANSWER

It looks like the SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 fields used in the old answer are now deprecated. I got the following example working using the sigint field:

import "dart:io";

void main() {
  var n = 0;
  ProcessSignal.sigint.watch().listen((signal) {
    print(" caught ${++n} of 3");

    if (n == 3) {
      exit(0);
    }
  });
}
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Günter Zöchbauer On

I found the following test code at Unified Diff: tests/standalone/io/signals_test_script.dart

import "dart:io";

void main(args) {
  int usr1Count = int.parse(args[0]);
  int usr2Count = int.parse(args[1]);
  var sub1;
  var sub2;
  void check() {
    if (usr1Count < 0 || usr2Count < 0) exit(1);
    if (usr1Count == 0 && usr2Count == 0) {
      sub1.cancel();
      sub2.cancel();
    }
    print("ready");
  }
  sub1 = ProcessSignal.SIGUSR1.watch().listen((signal) {
    if (signal != ProcessSignal.SIGUSR1) exit(1);
    usr1Count--;
    check();
  });
  sub2 = ProcessSignal.SIGUSR2.watch().listen((signal) {
    if (signal != ProcessSignal.SIGUSR2) exit(1);
    usr2Count--;
    check();
  });
  check();
}